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SAW HANDLE.

N0. 434,767. Patented Aug. 19, 1890.

INVENTOH WITNESSES:

A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD WV. CLEMSON, OF MIDDLETOIVN, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE IVHEELER, MADDEN dz CLEMSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME ANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,767, dated August 19, 1890.

Application filed December 9, 1889. Serial N0. 333,057. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD W. CLEMSON, of Middletown, in the county of Orange and State oi- New York, have invented a new and Improved SawI-Iandle, of which the following Io saw-handle, and Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Saw-handles, as commonly made for handsaws, butcher-saws, 860., are provided outside of the grip, at the ends thereof, with horns between which the palm of the hand is received, and which confine the hand to a particular position on the handle. This has necessitated a fixed position of the hand relative to the saw. It has also necessitated the use on small saws of handles proportionally too large on account of the necessity of making them wide enough to receive a hand of the average size; and, further, it is found in starting a cut with a hand or butcher saw that it is advantageous to so place the hand upon the handle as to bring it in line or nearly in line with the cutting-edge of the saw. This could not be conveniently done with theordinary saw-handle. The object of my invention is to avoid this difficulty and provide a saw-handle which will permit of placing the hand in various positions relative to the cut- 3 5 ting-edge of the saw, and which will afford no limit to the size of the hand thatmay be applied to the handle, and which will further permit of using on small saws handles having a size bearing some relation to that of the 0 width and length of the saw.

To this end my invention consists in a hand and butcher saw handle in which the handgrip is prolonged below the hand-hole of the handle.

Referring to the drawings, A is a hand or butcher saw handle, which, with the exception of the hand-grip presently to be described, is of the usual well-known form, and will therefore need no special description.

The hand-grip B at the outer side of the hand-hole C of the handle is provided witha knob D at its upper part, the function of upward when four fingers are placed within the hand-hole C. The finger E forms a prolongation on the same axial line of the handgrip B, which, together with the hand-grip itself, affords a long bearing for the palm of the hand, so as to permit of shifting the hand downward upon the handle so as to bring the palm of the hand downward in line or nearly in line with the cutting-edge of the saw, and also to permit of placing two, three, or four fingers within the hand-hole C, with one, two, or three fingers outside of the said hand-hole. It will be seen that the handgrip B is made straight, and that the straight in line with the hand-grip.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A saw-handle provided with a straight handgrip B and a straight finger E extending below the hand-hole and body of the handle axially in line with the handgrip, substantially as specified.

RICHARD W. CLEMSON.

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F. B. HATHAWAY, C. I. HUMPHREY.

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